There are two paths before Feng Xi.
One is that regardless of whether the soldiers were defeated or not, they continued to attack Zhang He with all their lives. Even if they were half dead or even seriously injured, they still had to kill Zhang He on the spot.
As long as Zhang He is dead, the Wei army will be leaderless, and the sneak attack on Wuzhangyuan will basically be over.
To be honest, if he was really confident enough to do this, Feng Xizhen didn't care whether he risked his own life or not.
He had already been punished for his two defeats to Zhang He. If he could kill Zhang He this time, although he might lose his life, he would gain both fame and fortune, and his family would benefit a lot from it. Feng Xi was really not afraid of death.
But the problem is - Feng Xizhen doesn't think that by risking his own life, he can kill Zhang He before his soldiers are completely defeated.
On the one hand, although Zhang He is at a disadvantage in terms of strength, Feng Xi cannot completely suppress Zhang He. The old guy is a thief. A sudden counterattack may make Feng Xi pay the price at any time, and he may even be killed.
On the other hand, if old boy Zhang He were more shameless and looked like he couldn't beat him, he would retreat back and let the Wei soldiers come up to surround him, but he would have nothing to do with him.
After all, this was not a duel, but a chaotic battle on the battlefield. There was no need for Zhang He to have to fight Feng Xi one-on-one.
The option of risking one's life to kill Zhang He can only be said to look very tempting, but in actual practice, the probability of success is not high at all.
Therefore, Feng Xi could only choose the second path.
Temporarily retreat, stabilize the defensive line of his own soldiers, retreat while fighting, join the remaining infantry in the market, and continue to delay the Wei army's offensive speed.
The advantage of doing this is to prevent the collapse of one's own defense line, which can delay time and wait for Liu Yin's support.
Liu Yinke was just outside Dachangji. It would not take more than a quarter of an hour from when Liu Yin received the news to when the whole army came to support him. As long as this period of time was delayed, Feng Xi's mission would be completed, and Zhang He would also Don't even think about sending troops to attack Wuzhangyuan without capturing Dachangji.
After being defeated and punished twice for daring to advance, Feng Xi chose the second combat plan this time out of insurance considerations.
Relying on his advantage, Feng Xi did not continue to struggle with Zhang He, but found the right opportunity to retreat and temporarily withdrew from the fight with Zhang He.
After withdrawing from the battle, Feng Xi quickly went to support the place where his soldiers were in emergency, fought back the siege of the Wei army, and commanded his soldiers to re-establish the defense line. After going back and forth, he temporarily stabilized the defense line.
Next, Feng Xi did not greedy for credit, but chose to lead his soldiers to retreat while fighting, and retreated to Dachangji.
When Zhang He saw it, he felt anxious and a little embarrassed at the same time.
After all, I was old, but I couldn't keep this junior on the spot, and allowed this junior to temporarily suppress him with his strength advantage.
Although Zhang He is confident that after a period of adjustment, he can kill this junior, but others will not give you this opportunity.
This timely retreat to stabilize the defense line made Zhang He somewhat unexpected. Is the junior in front of him really the junior who lost to him twice in a row a few days ago? !
Isn't that junior the kind of reckless man who rushes in without thinking? How come today's combat commander is so clear-headed? !
But once you wake up like this, it will be difficult for me! ! !
If this Shu army can be defeated in one fell swoop and advance into Dachangji, the morale of the Shu army inside Dachangji will definitely collapse. At that time, even if the reinforcements of the Shu army are just outside Dachangji, they will not be able to stop the defeat. .
But it's a pity that that reckless young man's mind was so clear today that he didn't give himself this chance.
No matter what, the reckless young man is fighting and retreating at the same time. Zhang He's side does not have no chance to continue to win. As long as he continues to fight like this and invades Dachangji in one fell swoop, with the combat effectiveness of the Wei army being more than one step higher, this This battle can still be won in the end.
The only thing that worries Zhang He is whether this Shu army has reinforcements, and if so, when will their reinforcements arrive.
This is the only information that Zhang He's scouts did not detect, and it is also the real reason why Zhang He must launch a surprise attack to win a quick victory.
If the Shu army in Dachangji was just an army sent by Zhang Xi to garrison just in case, then Zhang He could basically achieve his strategic goal this time as long as he defeated this Shu army.
It takes at least two days to get from Dachangji to Wugong County. By the time Zhang Xi leads his troops from Wugong County for rescue, Zhang He should have defeated the Shu army in Dachangji long ago, and at the same time, he has already led his troops to attack Wuzhangyuan is gone.
But if this Shu army does not only have these 500 people, but has other backup, then things will be difficult to handle.
Today, Zhang He knows too little information in this area, and he feels quite uneasy.
But no matter how Zhang Xi responded, this battle of Dachangji must be fought. If Dachangji is not defeated, he will not be able to march into Wuzhangyuan with peace of mind. He will have to worry about someone poking his butt at any time.
Now, there is no practical significance in thinking too much. Zhang He can only speed up the attack rhythm, try to capture Dachangji before the reinforcements of the Shu army arrive, and then quickly rest and attack Wuzhangyuan directly.
I just don’t know if the Shu army will give him this opportunity. This is Zhang He’s biggest worry now.
As time went by, Zhang He's worry gradually became more and more uneasy.
Because Zhang He saw a team of more than a hundred people quickly entering Dachangji from the direction outside Dachangji.
This is Liu Yin bringing troops to support.
But the number of troops Liu Yin brought was very successful and made Zhang He murmur.
What Zhang He was wondering was whether this army of only a hundred people could be regarded as reinforcements for the Shu army. They did come from the outskirts of Dachangji, but you have to decide. These more than a hundred people, How helpful can it be to the internal situation on the battlefield? !
Therefore, Zhang He was not sure whether the more than 100 soldiers Liu Yin brought personally were considered reinforcements. He was even more uncertain whether the reinforcements from the Shu army were just outside Dachangji, or whether these 100 soldiers were just Feng Xi's tens of thousands of soldiers. Ichiru's reserve team.
Zhang He couldn't figure out this problem, but Feng Xi knew it very well. Feng Xi also didn't understand. Why didn't Liu Yin lead all 500 soldiers into Dachangji? What's the point of bringing more than 100 people to support? !
The military morale and morale of the Shu soldiers who are currently defending Dachangji have reached a critical point and may collapse at any time.
On the contrary, Liu Yin's troops, which had rested for a night, were far stronger than Feng Xi's 500 men in terms of morale and combat effectiveness.
Do you want to use fuel tactics? !
That’s a taboo for military strategists! ! !
But Liu Yin also has Liu Yin's difficulties.
It was not that Liu Yin didn't know that the refueling tactic was taboo in the current situation. Too few troops could not change the entire battle situation. But after Liu Yin thought about it carefully, he found that he had no choice at all.
After receiving Feng Xi's request for help, Liu Yin immediately summoned the infantry and led the troops to come for reinforcements. In less than a quarter of an hour, Liu Yin had already led the troops to Dachangji.
But the real problem was that Liu Yin found that Dachangji was too small.
It was originally a big place, but as a result, Zhang He led 500 men, plus Feng Xi's 500 garrison soldiers. Within the small Dachang Gathering, there were nearly a thousand soldiers fighting.
Liu Yin wanted to put his troops into the battle, but there was nowhere to fill them.
In addition, when Liu Yin arrived at Dachangji, Feng Xi had already chosen to retreat to the entrance of Dachangji. At this time, a large part of the Wei army and the Han army were already strangled together, and the remaining Han army also needed to bear the responsibility of support and support. Support missions.
Of course Liu Yin knew that the combat effectiveness and morale of the Han army in Dachang Collection were already very low, but if Liu Yin ordered the Han army in Dachang Collection to retreat temporarily at this time, the Wei army would have followed the Han army before he could lead his troops to fill the gap. The army retreated and entered Dachangji.
Liu Yin couldn't even retreat in batches.
The soldiers in the front are fighting desperately, and the friendly troops in the rear are retreating. If someone yells without knowing it, who will block the Wei army's attack in the front? !
Therefore, Liu Yin really had no choice but to take about a hundred soldiers and join the battlefield first.
In doing so, it can at least help Feng Xi stabilize the defense line first, so as to prevent Dachangji from losing its entire line.
After helping Feng Xi stabilize the defense line, Liu Yin asked Feng Xi to continue to take charge of Dachangji's peripheral defense to resist Zhang He's attack, while on the other hand, he started his own operations.
First of all, Liu Yin ordered that some of the original remaining troops in Dachang who were responsible for containment and coordination should be withdrawn from the battlefield and replaced by new forces brought by Liu Yin.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yin used this new force to form a second line of defense, preparing for the Han army's defense to be at a disadvantage and having to retreat into Dachangji to continue its defense.
This is really not an unfounded worry. In terms of the combat effectiveness and morale of the Han army that was left in Dachangji, it is considered that Feng Xi has commanded well to be able to survive until now.
As for why Liu Yin didn't immediately send his own fresh troops to take over the defense line that the remaining troops were originally responsible for, it was not that Liu Yin didn't want to let the remaining troops retreat and rest, but that he couldn't do it.
The soldiers of this era were basically unorganized. Especially for the army composed of county soldiers led by Liu Yin and others, they really couldn't do things like changing defenses during war.
Once Liu Yin sends people to change the defense, Liu Yin can be sure that in order to survive, some soldiers will retreat in a hurry or even escape before the defense force is in place, and the Wei army will definitely seize the opportunity to pursue them. When they get there, At this time, not only the defense line will collapse, but also the soldiers who went to change defenses will be killed along with them.
Therefore, Liu Yin could only ruthlessly let these soldiers who were already strangled with the Wei army continue to hold out on the front line. After he established a second line of defense behind him, he would let these people retreat. This would be safer.
(End of chapter)
